Expiatory

Definition: Expiatory

Expiatory

Adjective

1. Having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation; "expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice".

Date "expiatory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Etymology: Expiatory \Ex"pi*a*to*ry\, adjective. [Latin expression expiatorius: compare to the French expression expiatoire.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Expiatory

Synonyms: expiative (adj), propitiatory (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Expiatory

English words defined with "expiatory": Expiatorious ♦ Piacular, Purgatorian. (references)

Specialty definitions using "expiatory": Polygamy. (references)

Etymologies containing "expiatory": Purgament. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	City Icons: Antoni Gaudi, Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia ; Warren and Wetmore, Grand Central Terminal ; Jorn Utzon, Sydney Opera House) (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one.
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"Expiatory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Expiatory" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

Expression using "expiatory": expiatory sacrifice. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "expiatory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shlyerës. (various references)

Arabic		‏مكفر, ‏تكفيرى. (various references)

Bulgarian		изкупителен (purgatorial, redemptive, satisfactory). (various references)

Czech		odèinìný. (various references)

Finnish		sovintouhri (expiatory sacrifice), sovintokuolema (expiatory death). (various references)

French		expiatoire. (various references)

German		sühnend. (various references)

Greek		εκπνευστικόσ (expiratory), εξαγνιστήριοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		vezeklő, kiengesztelő (conciliating, placating, propitiative, propitiator), engesztelő (placatory, propitial, propitiatory). (various references)

Pig Latin		expiatoryay

Portuguese		expiação (atonement, propitiation). (various references)

Romanian		expiator, ispãşitor (expiating). (various references)

Russian		искупительный (piacular, propitiatory, purgatorial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ekspiratorni, izdahnut (expired). (various references)

Spanish		expiatorio (piacular). (various references)

Turkish		kefaret türünden. (various references)

Ukranian		спокутний (piacular, propitiatory, purgative, vicarious). (various references)

Vietnamese		để chuộc. (various references)

Welsh		iawnol (atoning). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "expiatory" (pronounced 'Ex"pi*a*to*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-o-p-r-t-x-y"
	-1 letter: expiator.
	-2 letters: apteryx, epitaxy, pyrexia, topiary.
	-3 letters: expiry, export, opiate, parity, peroxy, pirate, poetry, pretax, protea, protei, pyrite, teapoy, typier.
	-4 letters: apery, aport, apter, atopy, atrip, axite, epoxy, expat, extra, irate, ixora, oater, opera, orate, oxter, pareo, party, pater, patio, payer, payor, peart, peaty, pieta, piety, prate, prexy, proxy, pyxie, ratio, repay, repot, retax.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-o-p-r-t-x-y"
	+1 letter: expiratory.
	+2 letters: explicatory, proximately.
	+4 letters: approximately, expeditionary, explanatorily, exploratively, exportability, extemporarily.
	+5 letters: extemporaneity, hydroxyapatite.
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